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"Residents in St. John the Baptist Parish are still drying out after heavy rainfall Wednesday poured water into their front yards and threatening to enter homes, and now they are bracing for more.\"We flooded for Isaac, so we're just trying to get back to normal,\" said Jennifer Duhe, a Mount Airy resident.\"The rain just came down really quick, and as you can see everything is flooded,\" she said as she stood without shoes in water above her ankles Thursday. \"Yesterday afternoon the water was really close to getting in the house, another three inches and it would have been in the house.\"By the time Duhe arrived home Wednesday afternoon water filled the ditches in front of her home and Daffodil Street was nearly impassable.\"The parish came out and barricaded the roads and came and brought us some sand bags. The major problem yesterday was the people breaking the barricades and driving through. They don't realize that the water is close to the threshold, so as the wake comes in the water pushes into the home,\" Duhe said.Her neighbor, Terry Horton, said his car took in water when his wife drove into a ditch she could not see at the end of their driveway.\"It don't even want to start. It went so far in the water, like two or three feet of water,\" Horton said.It left them stranded inside their home for the rest of the day, and with more rain in the forecast they are not taking any chances.\"We're just going to get ready to go and leave in a second because I think we're going to get trapped in again.\"Duhe said, “I'm just hoping it recedes enough that way when we get the next torrential rainfall it doesn't get too much higher.”St. John Parish officials are urging residents who get water in their homes or experience any drainage problems to call 911. A parish spokesperson added they are working to get the drainage flowing to get rid of the standing water."
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